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Today’s Mother Goose and Grimm, which has neither Mother Goose nor the dog Grimm in it:

(#1)

Symbols for woman, man, and child, as they appear on road signs and restroom doors.

The gender symbols:

(#2)

Children crossing:

(#3)

A straight couple:

(#4)

A female couple:

(#5)

And a male couple:

(#6)

Earlier on this blog (on 4/13/13), the mirror of Venus and spear of Mars as sex/gender symbols: “Sex/gender symbols” and “More sex/gender symbols”.

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